Recipe

Tuna salad sandwiches

Dec 31, 2010 1:00pm
  • 25 mins cooking
  • Makes 24 Item
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Ingredients

Tuna salad sandwiches
  • 425 gram (13½ ounces) canned tuna in brine, drained and broken up into flakes with a fork
  • 1/2 small_piece (75g) red capsicum (bell pepper), chopped finely
  • 1 green onion (scallion), sliced thinly
  • 1 (150g), stalk celery , with leafy parts cut off, chopped finely
  • 1 teaspoon fresh flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
  • 1/2 cup (150g) mayonnaise
  • 2 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
  • 12 slice (540g) multigrain bread
  • 90 gram (3 ounces) green oak leaf lettuce leaves, with white parts cut off

Method

Tuna salad sandwiches
  • 1
    Put the tuna, capsicum, onion, celery and parsley in a medium bowl, mix them together with a wooden spoon. Put the mayonnaise, lemon juice and dijon mustard in a small bowl, mix them together with a small spoon. Add the mayonnaise mixture to the tuna mixture, stir to mix them together.
  • 2
    Spread the tuna mixture over six of the bread slices, put the lettuce on top, then top with the rest of the bread slices. Use a serrated bread knife to cut each sandwich into four triangles.

Notes

You can use canned pink or red salmon instead of the tuna.

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